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Violence: Big Ideas / Small Books - BIG IDEAS/ / small books 1st edition

Slavoj Zizek

Violence: Big Ideas / Small Books - BIG IDEAS/ / small books 1st edition

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj ?i?ek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.

Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj ?i?ek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, ?i?ek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists.

Violence, ?i?ek states, takes three forms--subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)--and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions.

Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbour"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think?

Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, ?i?ek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.


272 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 22 de julio de 2008
ISBN13 9780312427184
Editores Picador
Páginas 272
Dimensiones 4 × 186 × 17 mm   ·   208 g
Lengua English  

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